Dear Reader,

The turn of the year was a good moment to reflect on numbers that help put progress into perspective and sharpen the view on what still lies ahead. Looking at how FieldBots has grown, from opening access through FieldBots for Free, to benchmarking global adoption with Biggest Fleet 2025, and to the rapid rise in real-world machine hours, offers a tangible sense of how data turns experience into direction.

If you or your team are pursuing ambitious fleet goals or encountering performance or growth obstacles, we are always glad to engage, help remove barriers, and support you in turning those ambitions into measurable results.

FieldBots for Free marks our zero-entry point into independent fleet management. With this launch, users can register their entire robot fleet in FieldBots and securely consolidate data from manufacturer systems into a single, neutral platform for long-term use. It provides an immediate sense of what independent access to fleet data really means, enables first operational actions from day one, and lays the groundwork for scaling without lock-in. Since launch, this free entry tier has attracted hundreds of new users every month. In that spirit, we also welcome the many new subscribers who have joined the FieldBots Radar newsletter over the past months!

Biggest Fleet 2025 brings together 97 fleets operating more than 14,000 robots, more than doubling participation compared to last year and offering a clear, independently benchmarked view of large-scale cleaning robot deployments worldwide. Based on standardized submissions and the Radar Score, the ranking shows how robotics is moving beyond pilots into sustained operations, with retail still leading adoption while hospitality, public institutions, and markets across Europe and Asia continue to gain relevance.

With 705,000 machine hours recorded, roughly half of them collected in 2025 alone, FieldBots reflects a phase of rapid growth in real-world robot operations. Combined with environmental context such as square meters, floor plans, status signals, and error codes, this data enables Big Data Intelligence that goes far beyond raw usage metrics. Aggregated and anonymized insights allow fleets to benchmark performance by model and environment, track firmware adoption, project ROI, and anticipate the lifetime of consumables like brushes or filters, turning collective operational experience into concrete, data-driven decisions.

FieldBots is the leading platform for managing autonomous cleaning robots, currently supporting eight manufacturers and 23 models. Operators can centrally manage machines from different brands and document cleaning performance. With configurable widgets, automated notifications and integrated ticketing, both operational and technical teams are supported in their daily work.